Beto O’Rourke is very good at getting people to give his campaign money. The campaign said Friday that it had raised $38 million from more than 800,000 donors in the third quarter of this year, far outpacing the Cruz’s campaign’s more than $12 million haul. By comparison, Rick Lazio, who had the previous record for three-month fundraising when challenging Hillary Clinton in 2000, pulled in only $22 million.

O’Rourke is, if nothing else, a media and fundraising phenomenon with little precedent, besides maybe Barrack Obama. No wonder Michael Avenatti is getting in on it.